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Oracle Beats NetApp and EMC in Storage Magazine Quality Awards for NAS

Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Earn Highest Ratings for Enterprise and Midrange NAS Systems

News Facts:

• Oracle today announced its Sun ZFS Storage Appliances earned the highest overall scores in the six-year history of Storage magazine's Quality Awards for NAS, for both enterprise and midrange NAS.
• Oracle bested the competition in initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and received high marks for sales force competence.
• In its analysis of the results, Storage magazine noted, "Oracle Corp. storage users are apparently the most satisfied among the legions of NAS users," and reported that 97 percent of Oracle enterprise NAS users surveyed would buy again.
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances deliver enterprise-class NAS capabilities to more than 3,000 customers and are ideal for enterprise applications, virtualization, cloud, storage consolidation, and data protection.
• Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances are the only NAS products engineered together with Oracle Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle's SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, and are optimized for Oracle VM and the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Engineered integration enables Oracle software to run fastest and most efficiently on Oracle storage.
• The Storage magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage/SearchStorage.com readers who assessed products in five categories: initial product quality, features, reliability, technical support and sales force competence.

Big Data Online Forum – Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET

Big data is big news these days. But you don't base IT investment decisions on magazine headlines.

Join us for the Big Data Online Forum to learn the essentials of big data - from the technology underlying it to real-world use cases. Oracle Senior Technical Architect Tom Kyte, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and other industry thought leaders will be on hand to explain how big data can deliver revolutionary insight and competitive advantage.

You'll get answers to tough questions surrounding big data, including:

• What business insight can big data uncover?
• How do you manage big data?
• How do you integrate big data and decision-making?

Register today for this half-day online event featuring live Q&A with big data experts.

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Join Oracle for a live Webcast
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET

Across industries, executives are realizing that we have entered a new era. It's the era of the empowered consumer, where success can only be achieved by delivering great customer experiences.

Join Oracle President, Mark Hurd and senior executives from Oracle and RightNow to learn more about our strategy and combined, best-in-class solutions that will transform the way organizations deliver great customer experiences across every channel to achieve sustainable business advantage.

Together, Oracle and RightNow will:

• Enable unified, personalized and relevant customer experiences across all channels and customer touchpoints along the entire customer journey.
• Offer a best-in-class customer service cloud that delivers exceptional experiences across the web, social networks and contact centers.
• Help organizations accelerate the acquisition of new customers, maximize customer retention, and improve operational efficiency.

Don't miss this important webcast.

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MySQL Embedded Online Forum:
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 9:00AM PST - 12:00 PM PST

MySQL is even better than you think. According to the experts, it's easier to use and it's more capable than most ISVs / OEMs realize, and by taking a few tried-and-tested steps before shipping your MySQL-embedded products, you can lower your product's costs and increase its performance.

Join our expert-created and delivered MySQL Embedded Online Forum to learn:

• Why MySQL is a great embedded database for startups as well as the largest software, hardware, and appliance vendors in the world, and how its features ensure costs remain low throughout an application's life cycle
• MySQL installation options that require minimal or zero end user effort and how to easily build them into your application
• How to secure MySQL embedded in applications, appliances, and devices
• Tips to simplify your integration with MySQL using the most popular MySQL Connectors and guidance on selecting the settings that will maximize your application's performance
• Why MySQL delivers excellent performance and how to go beyond the default settings to optimize MySQL's queries, reporting, and search capabilities

Register now or click the tabs (to the right) to learn more about the agenda, sessions, and speakers.

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Your Strategy. Your Cloud. Your Choice.

With all the cloud deployment choices available today—public, private, and hybrid—and all the service choices—software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service—how do you determine the right mix for your IT and business needs? Attend this conference and we'll help you find the cloud strategy that's right for your enterprise.

Oracle's cloud experts will show you how to:

• Choose the right public and private deployment models that best fit your enterprise usage
• Transform your data center to a private cloud model, plus add self-service, autoscaling, and metering/chargeback
• Select from Oracle's private and public cloud services to provide efficient, flexible enterprise cloud services for your business applications

Whether you are transitioning to the cloud or advancing to the next level, this event offers practical insights that can help you make the most of your cloud computing choices.

Coming to a city near you – register now!

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Learn about modern, lightweight development with Java EE 6 and Coherence

Java Developers and Architects will learn about Java EE6, WebLogic Server, Coherence, Eclipse, NetBeans, Maven and Hudson in hands on labs and sessions while interacting with Oracle product experts in live, moderated chats.

• Americas - Tuesday - Jan 24, 2012 - 9:30 am - 1:30 pm Pacific / 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern
• Europe/Russia - Tuesday Feb 7, 2012 - 9:30 am - 1:30 pm UK Time (GMT) / 10:30 am - 2:30 pm CET
• Asia Pacific (English) - Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 9:30am to 1:30pm India Standard Time
• Asia Pacific (Chinese) - February 21, 2012 - 9:00am to 12:00pm Beijing Standard Time

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Oracle Enterprise Management Online Forum: Gain Total Control of Enterprise Clouds

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. PT – 1:30 p.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET – 4:30 p.m. ET

Join Oracle executives and product experts for this complimentary, half-day online forum and live chat to learn about the different phases of the cloud lifecycle, challenges associated with each phase and the Oracle cloud management solution that keeps you in total control of your cloud services every step of the way.

You'll hear from business and IT experts on how to:

• Justify your cloud initiative based on proven best practices
• Manage the entire cloud lifecycle from planning, provisioning, deployment through monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades using a single console
• Deliver integrated management of the entire cloud stack from applications to disks to maximize IT agility while minimizing the complexity and costs associated with IT management
• Create a business driven cloud with deep insight into applications, business services and transactions

Attend this interactive online event and find out how you can fast-track your business to the cloud.

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Oracle Online Systems Forum: Oracle Accelerates Your Business with Breakthrough Application to Disk Solutions

Event Date: 01/11/2012 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Join us for this online event and learn how Oracle Optimized Solutions help businesses lower their TCO, mitigate risk, and improve productivity while accelerating innovation across the entire technology stack. This event for information technology professionals features an executive keynote, breakout sessions with analyst insights, and customer case studies.

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Revenues and profits up.

Results were announced on December 20, 2011.

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Please join us on December 1, as Hasan Rizvi unveils the next generation of the industry's #1 application server and cornerstone of Oracle's cloud application foundation—Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.

Now is the time to find out why Oracle WebLogic Server is outperforming competitors with higher speed, lower TCO with simplified management, and accelerated time to market with developer efficiency innovations. Join fellow IT managers, architects, and developers to hear how the new release of Oracle WebLogic Server is:

• Designed to help you seamlessly move into the public or private cloud with an open, standards-based platform
• Built to drive higher value for your current infrastructure and significantly reduce development time and cost
• Optimized to run your solutions for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE); Oracle Fusion Middleware; and Oracle Fusion Applications
• Enhanced with transformational platforms and technologies such as Java EE 6, Oracle'sActive GridLink for RAC, Oracle Traffic Director, and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder

See the latest demos and hear from our leading developers on how this new release dramatically improves your deployment of applications for the cloud. In addition, you can participate in a developer-focused deep-dive session at 11 a.m. where experts will answer live chat questions on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c.

Don't miss this online launch event.

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Build Your Next-Generation Datacenter in the Cloud

Join Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler at the Oracle Solaris 11 launch event in New York, and learn how you can build your infrastructure with Oracle Solaris 11 to:

• Accelerate internal, public, and hybrid cloud applications
• Optimize application deployment with built-in virtualization
• Achieve top performance and cost advantages with Oracle Solaris 11–based engineered systems

The launch event will also feature exclusive content for our in-person audience including a session led by the VP of core Solaris development and his leads on Solaris 11 and a customer insights panel during lunch. We will also have a technology showcase featuring our latest systems and Solaris technologies. The Solaris executive team will also be there throughout the day to answer questions and give insights into future developments in Solaris.

Don't miss the Oracle Solaris 11 launch in New York on November 9.

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On October 24, 2011, Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNOW), a leading provider of cloud-based customer service. RightNow's Customer Service Cloud helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks.

Oracle is moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud. Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel.

• Read the press release

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